Cajun Rice: Quick and Dirty

You'll have clean plates when you serve this Cajun-style "Dirty Rice."

Wayne Independent - Honesdale, PA

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Posted Feb. 17, 2013 at 12:01 AM
Updated Feb 17, 2013 at 5:23 PM

Posted Feb. 17, 2013 at 12:01 AM
Updated Feb 17, 2013 at 5:23 PM

Chicken livers, ground pork and giblets give Dirty Rice, a legendary Cajun dish, its name. But this tasty crowd-pleaser, which turns up at just about every family event in the Cajun Country of Louisiana and Mississippi, is anything but drab.

No two recipes are the same, and every family prepares its dirty rice differently, adding or subtracting favorite ingredients to enhance and deepen the flavors. Have a taste on Fat Tuesday, Feb. 12.

<em>—Story by Gigi Ragland, a freelance writer in Longmont, Colo.</em>